Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
Richard M. NixonI can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
Barack ObamaI have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
George H. W. BushA President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond TutuYeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
Neil ArmstrongRomney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.
Clint EastwoodHow long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerNever let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin PowellAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda MeirOne’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham MaslowAlthough the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas SowellThe Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack ObamaWhile the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.
Maya AngelouNo man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPolitics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
Pope FrancisI’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.
Barack ObamaWhen I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
Nelson MandelaDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerCapitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill GatesPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James MadisonLaws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George WashingtonA lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint EastwoodThe atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George OrwellPeople ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore RooseveltDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonTo be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark TwainOne of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
Madeleine AlbrightNot brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas CarlyleNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonEvery time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Robert KiyosakiEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPut two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. RooseveltI am not a crook.
Richard M. NixonWhen they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘
Theodore RooseveltI can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnGeorge Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
Christopher HitchensPolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellMy job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
Tom BradyArguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar WildeThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert FrostTo rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
ConfuciusAs capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Robert KiyosakiA leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James MadisonIf a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.
Haruki MurakamiWe have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. JohnsonRonald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
Christopher HitchensInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Noam ChomskyIt is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VoltairePower works best when it is indirect – never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.
Robert GreeneI’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.
Dolly PartonI’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.
Muhammad AliWhen a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. MenckenRonald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher HitchensIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt